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Critical Terms and Issues in Comparative Ethnic Studies
ETHSTD 200 001 | CCN: 24885
Instructor: Lok Siu
Introduction to the field examining the critical practices and salient terms and issues in the study of contemporary cultural and social formations. The focus is interdisciplinary. ... -
History and Narrativity
ETHSTD 201
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What is the purpose of history? Why do we need to tell stories about the past? And how should we tell or narrate history? We’ll explore these questions by turning to modern historiography. Historiography is the study... -
Cultural Texts: Contemporary Theories and Methods
ETHSTD 202 001 | CCN: 24237
Instructor: Juana María Rodríguez
The course examines critical theories and methods in the production of cultural knowledge in the humanities. Special attention is given to transdisciplinary articulation with theories and methods in the social sciences. ... -
Social Structures: Contemporary Theories and Methods
ETHSTD 203 001 | CCN: 24239
Instructor: Thomas Biolsi
The course examines critical theories and methods in the production of knowledge relevant to social, political, economic, and institutional structures. Special attention is given to transdisciplinary articulation with theories and methods in the humanities. ... -
Research Seminar: Selected Issues and Topics–Transnational Paradigms in Ethnic Studies
ETHSTD 240
Instructor: Ramon Grosfoguel
The main goal of this course is to offer a broad and comprehensive understanding of transnational approaches to both international development and race/ethnicity. We will cover the most important methodological, theoretical and historical issues related to transnational... -
Series in Comparative Transnational Theories and Methods—Transnational Paradigms in Ethnic Studies
ETHSTD 240 001 | CCN: 32223
Instructor: Ramon Grosfoguel
Research seminar focus is on critical theories and practices in transnational comparative frameworks. ... -
Series in Comparative Transnational Theories and Methods—Transnational Paradigms in Ethnic Studies
ETHSTD 240 001 | CCN: 32223
Instructor: Ramon Grosfoguel
Research seminar focus is on critical theories and practices in transnational comparative frameworks. ... -
Series in Comparative Transnational Theories and Methods—“Bodies in Motion: Theories, Concepts and Issues in Critical Refugee, Diaspora, and Transnational Studies”
ETHSTD 240 001 | CCN: 25181
Instructor: Khatharya Um
With prevailing conflicts, increased globalization and impact on communities, poor governance, and other adverse conditions in the world system, millions of people are on the move, dislocated and displaced by war, failing economies, environmental destruction, and the... -
Series in Comparative Transnational Theories and Methods–Transnational Paradigms in Ethnic Studies
ETHSTD 240 001 | CCN: 25269
Instructor: Ramon Grosfoguel
Research seminar focus is on critical theories and practices in transnational comparative frameworks. ... -
Research Seminar: Selected Issues and Topics—Religion, Race and Ethnicity
ETHSTD 250
Instructor: Carolyn Chen
Since the liberalization of immigration policy in 1965, immigrants and their children have become a significant part of American society. In some major American cities, they comprise over 50% of the population. This course offers a social... -
Research Seminar: Selected Issues and Topics–Comparative Racialization and the Relations between Communities of Color
ETHSTD 250
Instructor: Michael Omi
Groups of color in the United States are differentially positioned in a racial hierarchy with respect to social status, economic clout, and political power. How has this racial order evolved and how has it structured the types and... -
Research Seminar: Selected Issues and Topics—From Borderlands History to History of Borders
ETHSTD 250
Instructor: Christian Paiz
The seminar will trace the different historical manifestations of Southwest’s porousness, mixtures and transformations over the course of four centuries. It will begin with the indigenous landscape prior to Spanish colonial presence in the sixteenth century and... -
Research Seminar: Selected Issues and Topics—Writing Across Genres
ETHSTD 250
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Research Seminar: Selected Issues and Topics—“Ethnography: Theories and Methods”
ETHSTD 250 001 | CCN: 24253
Instructor: Lok Siu
A seminar course designed to involve Ethnic Studies students directly in the research process. Emphasis on examination and analysis of primary sources, methodology, and the development of theoretical constructs. A major research paper is required. ... -
Research Seminar: Selected Issues and Topics—“Lifeworlds of Indigenous Thought”
ETHSTD 250 001 | CCN: 25631
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A seminar course designed to involve Ethnic Studies students directly in the research process. Emphasis on examination and analysis of primary sources, methodology, and the development of theoretical constructs. A major research paper is required. ... -
Research Seminar: Selected Issues and Topics—Disciplines/Governmentalities/Assemblages
ETHSTD 250 001 | CCN: 24230
Instructor: Thomas Biolsi
How do we theorize identity and resistance? No one doubts that race, gender, sexuality, and class will continue to be key touchstones for making sense of both subject-formation and resistance to power. But beyond these well accepted landmarks in... -
Research Seminar: Selected Issues and Topics—Third World & US People of Color Theories of Being
ETHSTD 250 002 | CCN: 31069
Instructor: Laura E. Pérez
A seminar course designed to involve Ethnic Studies students directly in the research process. Emphasis on examination and analysis of primary sources, methodology, and the development of theoretical constructs. A major research paper is required. ... -
Research Seminar: Selected Issues and Topics—“The Rise of Authoritarianism, Ethic Nationalism and Othering and Belonging: How the Fear of the “Other” is Being Used to Challenge Democratic Norms”
ETHSTD 250 002 | CCN: 26291
Instructor: john a. powell
A seminar course designed to involve Ethnic Studies students directly in the research process. Emphasis on examination and analysis of primary sources, methodology, and the development of theoretical constructs. A major research paper is required. ... -
Research Seminar: Selected Issues and Topics—Indigenous Cultures and the Politics of Space
ETHSTD 250 002 | CCN: 25838
Instructor: Shari Huhndorf
Space, in the voluminous recent scholarship on the subject, is structured by a paradox: although generally perceived as natural and inert, it is in fact, as geographers Michael Keith and Steve Pile contend, the “(covert) medium and... -
Research Seminar: Selected Issues and Topics— “Critical Ethnic Studies without Guarantees: Thinking with Stuart Hall.”
ETHSTD 250 003 | CCN: 25839
Instructor: Keith P. Feldman
This course takes up the work of Stuart Hall, among the most influential scholars in the field of cultural studies and ethnic studies. Preferring contingency and complexity over the limited guarantees of analytical reductionism, Hall’s extensive engagement... -
Research Seminar: Selected Issues and Topics— Immigrant Rights & Activism: From Theory to Practice
ETHSTD 250 003 | CCN: 39775
Instructor: Critical Terms and Issues in Comparative Ethnic Studies
This interdisciplinary graduate seminar examines immigrant rights activism in theory and practice. Beginning with close readings of key texts in citizenship theory (e.g., by Benhabib, Honig, Boskniak, Carens, etc.), the bulk of the course will focus on... -
Research Seminar: Selected Issues and Topics—“Theories and Approaches to Inter-Racial Histories of the United States”
ETHSTD 250 003 | CCN: 30733
Instructor: Christian Paiz
A seminar course designed to involve Ethnic Studies students directly in the research process. Emphasis on examination and analysis of primary sources, methodology, and the development of theoretical constructs. A major research paper is required. ... -
Research Seminar: Selected Issues and Topics— National Bodies, Sexual Subjects
ETHSTD 250 004 | CCN: 40850
Instructor: Juana María Rodríguez
This class will interrogate how sexual subjects and the subjects of sex disrupt projects of subjectivity, identity, and nation. Drawing on performance studies, law, queer of color critique, disability studies and critical theories of discipline, power, and... -
Independent Study for Doctoral Student- Dissertation Research
ETHSTD 296 001 | CCN: See GSAO
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Professional Orientation
ETHSTD 302 001 | CCN: 24936
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This seminar is intended to instruct new graduate students in the behavior of professional academics including research, teaching, and academic ethics. Enrollment Restricted to Ethnic Studies Graduate Students ... -
Professional Writing
ETHSTD 303 | CCN: 33583
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This course trains graduate students in writing for professional purposes, such as preparing conference presentations, articles for publication in journals, applications for funding, prequalifying exam position papers, dissertation prospectuses, dissertation chapters, book prospectuses, job applications, etc. Students... -
Independent Study for Doctoral Student- Qualifying Examination
ETHSTD 602 001
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Critical Pedagogy: Instructor Training
ETHSTD C375 | CCN: 24286
Instructor: Greg Choy
The seminar provides a systemic approach to theories and practices of critical pedagogy at the university level. Examines the arts of teaching and learning and current disciplinary and cross-disciplinary issues in African/diaspora and Ethnic Studies. Participation two... -
Critical Pedagogy: Instructor Training
ETHSTD C375 | CCN: 24248
Instructor: Ula Taylor
Description The seminar provides a systemic approach to theories and practices of critical pedagogy at the university level. Examines the arts of teaching and learning and current disciplinary and cross-disciplinary issues in African/diaspora and Ethnic Studies. The course...